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(No Model.) Y B. STALGUP 8: G. W. STEWART.

BAND CUTTER AND FEEDER FOR THRASHING MACHINES.

No. 247,427. Patented Sept. 20,1881. I

TORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IND., ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO DEMAS A. BARRAGKMAN.

BAND-CUTTER AND FEEDER FOR THRASHING-MACHINE S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,427, dated September 20, 1881. Application filed April 28, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown thatwe,BENJAMIN STALoUPand GEORGE W. STEWART, of Worthington, in the county of Greene and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Band-Gutter and Feeder for Thrashing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is the production of a machine to be attached to any thrashing-machine which will cut the bands of the bundles of grain and feed the grain evenly to the cylinde Theinvention consists, principally, of an endless toothed web, and a shaft carrying knives, and arevolving spreader, and a yielding retarding device, all secured in a frame adapted to be attached to the frame and in front of a thrashing-machine, motion being imparted to the web, spreader, and knife-shaft by means of a detachable pulley placed upon the shaft of the cylinder of the thrashing-machine.

- In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan View of our invention. elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section taken on the line 00 a; of Fig. 1, and Fig. at a front elevation of the detachable pulley.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The parallel bars A A of the frame carry upon their under side the shafts aaa, which are provided with suitable pulleys, over which .the endless web B, which is provided upon its upper side with the spiked strips 1) b, passes.

Upon the upper side of the frame-bars are journaled the shaft 0, which is provided with the series of blades 0 c, and the shaft D, which is provided with the series of spirally-arranged rods or arms d d.

Between the shafts O and D is placed the retarding device, which is composed of the iron or wooden bar E, which holds the slightlycurved or straight arms or spikes e, and moves in the slots of the inclined castings F F, which are secured to the outside of the bars AA of the frame, and which is yieldin gly held in place in said slots by the spiral springs e e, secured to the'castings, and to the ends of the bar E.

The detachable pulley G is preferably made Fig. 2 is a side of malleable iron and of two parts, 9 g, which are adapted to be secured together by bolts passing through the extensions 9 g, which are formed on the sides of the parts 9 g, as shown in Fig. 4. By this means the device is adapted to be attached to the cylinder-shaft of any thrashing-machine, and to receive motion therefrom through the belt H, which passes over the divided pulley and over the pulley h, secured to the shaft a. The belts J and K pass over suitable pulleys attached to the shafts G, D, and a, the latter receiving and transmitting motion from the endless web.

In operation the bundles of grain are placed upon the endless web lengthwise, and are by it carried under the revolving knives, which cut the bands into short lengths, and cut and separate the bundles somewhat. From thence the grain is carried under the retarding device, whose arms 6 are drawn down andpressed upon thebundlebythespiralsprings. Thisservesto retard the upper portion of the bundles, especially of the large ones, and cause the same to begradually carried along by the web to the spreader, the rods or arms of which are so arranged spirally as to distribute the straw or grain evenly over the web in suitable shape to be fed to the cylinder of the thrashing-machine.

The knives c are secured to the shaft 0 by nuts, and can thus be removed and sharpened or replaced with new ones when they become worn or broken.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In feeders for thrashing-machines, the combination of an endless spiked web or carrier, B, the rotary blades 0, thespring-held arms 6, and the spirally-arranged rods d, to successivelycutthe ban ds, retard the bundles, and spread the grain before it reaches the thrashing-cylinder, as described.

BENJAMIN STALOUP. GEORGE W. STEWART. Witnesses:

H. J. HOOHSTETLER,

JOHN DARRAUGH. 

